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Islam: A Thousand Years of Faith and Power was published by Yale University Press and was written by two respected historians. Don't censor Wikipedia, it's not nice. Elijahmeeks 22:35, 4 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

Scholarly?

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Viewed as respected historians by what community? An anti-Shia community? This is just plain slander!

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cat box

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Hello - I think your series box on [[Cat Stevens] is a creative idea and was well done - you might want to talk to the folks at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Musicians to see if there's any room for that approach in their project. I don't know of any policy requirement overall about requiring infoboxes, but there's some desire for consistency across the encyclopedia that your series box might not fit in. I personally would rather see your drawing in the article than no photo, even in the standard infobox - if we can't find a free photo, why not? Anyway - I just wanted to say that it was a good try and thank you for the attempt - and to encourage you to present it to Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians. Cheers Tvoz |talk 23:21, 13 September 2007 (UTC)Reply

October 2007

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Genius!

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Wonderful infobox creation for Imams, I saw your work on Hasan al-Askari! I'm going to make some changes, thank you so much. It is a brilliant idea. --Enzuru 22:20, 21 May 2008 (UTC)Reply

Thanks a lot. God bless you--Seyyed(t-c) 04:27, 22 May 2008 (UTC)Reply

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Nomination for deletion of Template:Cat Stevens Alt

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Nomination for deletion of Template:Infobox Imams

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 Template:Infobox Imams has been nominated for deletion. You are invited to comment on the discussion at the template's entry on the Templates for discussion page. eh bien mon prince (talk) 18:30, 9 April 2013 (UTC)Reply

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